Saiph Savage

Research interests

• Artificial intelligence
• Human–computer interaction
• Data science
• Network science
• Machine learning

Education

• PhD in Computer Science; University of California, Santa Barbara
• MA in Computer Science; University of California, Santa Barbara
• BA in Computer Engineering, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México — Mexico

Biography

Saiph Savage is an assistant professor and director of the Civic AI Lab in the Khoury College of Computer Sciences at Northeastern University, based in Boston.

Savage's research focuses on creating intelligent civic technology to organize collective action for change, which includes battling misinformation and empowering gig and rural works to access better jobs. Much of this work focuses on expanding real-world applications of AI and human-centered design. To that end, Savage has collaborated with federal and local governments, and has penned high-level policy briefs within the Federation of American Scientists’ accelerator program.

At Khoury College, Savage teaches human-centered AI, global UX, human–computer interaction, and social computing. Her students have obtained fellowships and internships in industry and academia, including at Facebook, Twitch, Microsoft, X, and the Oxford Internet Institute.

Before joining Northeastern in 2021, Savage was a tech worker at Intel Labs and Microsoft Bing, and a crowd research worker at Stanford. She has taught or directed at West Virginia University, Carnegie Mellon University, and the University of Washington, focusing on human–computer interaction or human-centered design each time.

Savage has published in ACM CHI and CSCW, AAAI ICWSM and HCOMP, and the Web Conference; the BBC, The Economist, and the New York Times have covered her work. She is a recipient of grants from the UN and NSF, the Google Anita Borg Scholarship, and MIT Technology Review’s “35 Innovators Under 35” honor. She is also a fellow at the Center for Democracy and Technology, a technical advisor for Mexico’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs, and a member of ACM SIGCHI’s Latin America Committee.

Labs and groups

• Civic A.I. Lab

Projects

Recent publications